Raising Your Gamerscore By PowerLeveling 96
Joystiq is reporting on a new outfit claiming they'll powerlevel your gamerscore for cash. For $300, they say, they'll raise your Xbox Live gamerscore by 3000 points. Ozymandias, a member of the 360 Launch Team, has commentary on the situation. From his post: "The thing that struck me as most interesting about this is that Achievements (and the Gamerscore associated with them) have become a currency... one just as valuable as virtual currency in MMOs, and one some people might be willing to pay real dollars for. I certainly don't condone it, but it does support my belief that competitors will need to have their own Achievements/Gamerscore system in the future as it's definitely a tipping aspect for some folks. (For the record, I now believe the rumor of PS3 'Entitlements' to be false; however, I fully expect a similar solution within the next year or so once the online service has launched.)"
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WTF is wrong with people these days, seriously?
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Don't make me remember being forced to play that game. Please.
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uh... right... forced...
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Sony RoX0R
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-Eric
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WTF is wrong with people these days, seriosly?
Simple - The combination of three factors:
1) Widespread acceptance of reward in a token economy as a primary reinforcement. You can compare this to sexual fetishes, where the object of the fetish can elicit a stronger response than "real" sexual activity.
2) The use of money - A "token" economy even if also the basis of the "real" economy - has conditioned most humans from a VE
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Let me summarise the problem here.
These fucking retards have more money than brains
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this is what turns me off online gaming (Score:5, Interesting)
"I need to get my next medic badge dude".
"yeah fine, how about we play in a way that we all have fun, and play as a team huh"?
"shut up n00b"
I hope one day someone will make an online game that doesn't rack scores, or give a fuck about them. they can count me in.
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Look, the simple fact is that if you want this
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i do not however see the same kind of benefit from merely a higher gamerscore and more achievements. besides being able to brag about how high it is, there's no kind of "tangible" benefit from the game (cept maybe being able to play all levels again in Hardcore-Beat-yourself-up mode)
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I think the real problem is you. You are the type that are jealous of the people who can compete better than you (whether by skill or the ability to play 24/7). Ther
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I play a little world of warcraft -- about 2-3 hours each weekend. I mostly bum around, do the more interesting quests (the ones with some semblence of story behind them rather than the generic "go kill X of monster Y") and explore.
This has been working great, except for one thing -- now that my main character is nearing lvl 50, I'm CONSTANTLY being harassed with guild invites, raid invites, and party invite
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As for the original rant I agree with you. Myself I liked leveling with my friends and doing all kinds of roleplaying. That did get old after a while and I would go on leveling binges. Then go back ro roleplaying and having that type of fun. The real ni
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First of all, you should join a guild
Second of all, install a mod that automaticly declines party invitations.
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But which mod is this that automagically declines party invites? Any suggestions?
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You may have to enable out of date mods to get it to work
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EQ2 and City of Heroes let you toggle off invitations. E
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The casual player isn't heard, because we don't take the time to fill thread after thread after thread bitching about things.
I guess my point (sorry for the slightly-off-topic rant) is that its not the botters, its the damned kids that can't understand the concept of casual gam
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I play games for fun. Newsflash --> you do not get a ferrari and naked chicks once you hit the level cap in a MMO game.
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This is unrelated to the above, but I think the
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Second Life.
I'm sure theres more.
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Sure, there was a winner each round, but at the end of each round scores reset and you start over again. You can play in a team, but again, people consider themselves the winner if they scored the highest on the winning team, so they will steal team kills from another player and block people out just so they can get the highest score.
A good old free for all barney was the most fun I've ever had playing online, and it'
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Getting rid of statistics is not the answer. Why take away featuers of the game? What needs to be done is keep BETTER statistics.
Stats put a lot of pressure on you to play a certain way. Currently, most games keep kill to death ratio, or points per minute, and these tend to encourage tactics that violate the spirit of the
mine's bigger. (Score:2, Insightful)
On second thought, that was probably the whole point of the gamerscore in the first place. Hey kids, buy more xbox 360 games and you'll get more easy 'achievements' that'll give you a higher number and thus make you better than your frie
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Just wondering what would happen if he signed up for this with it impossible for them to fulfil the contract?
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Congratulations! Your friend is the new Moon Master! You must help defeat the Gorgatron!
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"Greetings Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada."
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Fortunately, this is being addressed (as seen on Ozymandias's blog in the comments)
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I still maintain my friend has no life, however...
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~nate
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Meanwhile, the ever-increasing amount of games is making the score useless as a metric. It doesn't really have much value anymore.
So..? (Score:3, Interesting)
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Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm clearly not the market for these services, and I'm just preaching to the choir here.
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Sell it for the same price as a DVD movie, and there you go.
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Ditto.
Xenosaga: Good anime, crappy game.
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For starting with all powers and infinite ammo, idkfa springs to mind, just build in some cheat codes and problem solved (still, try playing doom 2 past level 10 on ultraviolence while using idkfa just once and no other cheats).
As to playing the ending credits, there was a Monty Python game which had that option. I don't remember the name of the game, but it was based on the Holy Grail, so it might be called "The Black Knight", "The Knights Who Say `Ni'", or "Castle Anthrax", but more likely something alo
Junk... (Score:4, Funny)
(Powerleveling ensues)
Gold farmer: Okay joe! Powerlevel done! Enjoy gold and ninja'd epix!
(3 months later...)
Joe Schmoe: What the fuck? Someone logged on my account and stole EVERYTHING in my bank, including my 10,000 gold pieces and epic blow up doll collection!
Typical scenario, and no, I don't make this shit up. Although, the stolen items & currency are usually refunded, it's just asking for trouble if you sign up for something like this. Don't give your password(s) out to complete strangers, and you'll be better off for it.
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(*) I doubt people like this would use different passwords for different systems, so chances are if you learn their WoW password, you've got their Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail, Gmail, online bank, Ebay, etc. password as well.
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This gamerscore farming is even worse than that, because you have to give them your Passport account, and your Live account most likely has a credit card associated with it (for renewing your subscription and buying Points). Imagine w
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Interesting? (Score:1)
If you think that's "interesting", then you have never heard about this: http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141815 [1up.com]
Does not compute (Score:1)
I don't know much about the gamerscore system, but for a moment, let's assume that the system matches you up with players with similar scores. So now you've spent $300 so that you can play against people that are better than you, and you've developed zero skill while doing so. Not only are you going to get trounced (assuming not everyone is
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I have a 360 but... (Score:4, Interesting)
Buy things?
I thought that was what the for-pay Gold membership was for... which is why I never got onto Xbox Live AT ALL. (I'll get my updates via download&burn, thank you.)
Anyways, this gamer score crap is why things like Game Shark hasn't come out (and why 360 games are so brutally hard to play); alas, the ban on cheat code generators has been rendered moot by this run-around with the gamer score. So now we have neither cheat codes for single player games nor any integrity for the gamerscore system. Joy.
Tell me why again I bought a console??
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am i close?
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All gamerscore points let you do is show your friends, "Hey, Look I got 100% in Burnout or I completed all the mission on hard in GRAW"
It just lets young males stroke their epeens a little bit more.
It's just about having a bigger ePenis (Score:2)
In Starcraft battle.net kept track of your win-loss-disconnect record for an account. You could make new accounts, but a given account had a permanent record. Now one would think the point would be to try and match skill with people. If I've got a 34-50 record, I probably don't want to play the guy who's 250-2. However many people were all about pumping up their ratings.
This sounds so much like... (Score:2, Funny)
" claims they'll enlarge your penis for cash. For $, they say, they'll raise your libido by 3000 percent."
Back on topic, this is on par with people who would pay to have their character powerleveled in an MMORPG. You will be the max level when you get to play again, but you're still going to suck at it.
So really this is... (Score:1)
Oh man that will be some great spam (Score:2, Insightful)
That's just sad. (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe I should hire Tiger to play a few rounds of golf for me while I get a massage... that'll help the ol' scorecard.
Annoy GrumpyReaders by WordConcatenating (Score:2)
TechnicalTerm for it is CamelCase (Score:1)
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Ha ha how pathetic. (Score:1)
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The question I have is... WHY?
Gamerscore doesn't mean crap. Seriously. It's just an arbitrary number that some game developer uses. That's why there was an article a while back about how to get an easy 3000 points by r
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I mean, I doubt I could make a living off of it... But it could be fun. There are certain games that it's pretty easy to make 1000 points. (dw5:empires, for 1)
I could buy a Wii for that amount of cash (Score:1)
If you're that short of time that you'd pay money to "raise your level", maybe you need to reevaluate your life and cut back on the time you spend reading slashdot.
Way funnier detail to this story... (Score:1)
Kudos! (Score:2)
Stupidity like using this service should be punished. Plus, that $300 will do more good in the company's hands. I can't see how it could be spent worse than what the buyer did with it.
Achievements are great... (Score:1)
For me and others like me that populate the XBL Arcade arena frequently, obtaining the m
The real problem with it (Score:1)
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Karma (Score:2)